Plants or seeds received from friends serve as monuments of friendship. Each day throughout the season of vegetation, as one goes or comes, these living specimens bring forward kind remembrances, and point our thoughts to the absent with feelings of the purest gratification.

Messsrs. Editors :

I send you a short account of the meeting of the Ohio Pomological Convention, held at Zanesville, Ohio, last week. The meeting was both pleasant and profitable.

Long tables were loaded with excellent apples, from the Muskingum Valley, chiefly. There were a few pears, and a little square of grapes - the free gift of Bro. Knox - as Concord, Hartford Prolific, Delaware, Catawba, To Kalon, and Herbemont. In the discussion on the apple, nothing new was especially elicited, the old favorites as heretofore recommended being still undisturbed in their reign. Of strawberries, Wilson's Albany seemed to give the greatest satisfaction, though the Agriculturist, Jucunda, Triomphe de Gand, Filmore, and Russell's Prolific, received high commendations. - There seemed to be a general impression that it would be well worth while to try the Philadelphia raspberry, and the Kitta-tinny and Early Wilson blackberries, of which the president gave a very interesting account, having visited them this last summer in the fruiting season. Yet it was by no means thought best to throw aside the well-deserving Kirtland raspberry, which has proved itself productive and hardy in our State, and of better quality than the Philadelphia.

The Iona grape was badly reported on from the middle and southern part of the State; chief faults: liability to mildew and winter killing; all agreed as to its excellent quality; along the Lake Shore it has a better record. So had the Delaware sadly disappointed hopes away from Lake influences southward. The leaves blight and drop before the fruit can be matured or wood ripened. But the Concord, "blessed grape," had everywhere withstood disease; had ripened a plentiful crop, and fully matured its wood. Likewise the Ives and the Hartford Prolific. The Ives, at Cincinnati, had yielded 530 and 600 gallons to the acre, where the yield of Catawba had been but a hundred gallons. The Hartford Prolific had brought forty and fifty cents in market, and Mr. Knox had dent it to distant placed, had it still at Zanesville, without dropping from the stem. The Martha was commended as a promising white grape.

The meeting next year is to be held at Sandusky.

M. H. Lewis.

Sandusky, Ohio, Dec. 10.

Of magnolias, the longiflora appears to us as one of the most valuable. With equal hardihood of the glauca, it is a more vigorous grower; and while its leaves are equally glossy, green, and beautiful, they are full one-half larger.

Among the beautiful flowering second-class trees, or first-class shrubs, we may name kolreuteria paniculata. In growth it is rapid, sometimes attaining a height of 30 feet, but usually only growing from fifteen to twenty, and in August covered with bright yellow paniculated flowers. It is easily propagated from seeds or small pieces of the root, and for sheltered grounds in cities or large towns is a very desirable plant.